Isaac Fried, the Analytic and Synthetic Etymology of the Hebrew Language, p. 3: "The fundamental concept ער -רע of aggregation and separation, plurality and variability, is represented by the Hebrew letter ר, corresponding to the English letter r. Whenever this consonant is written or sounded in the lingual root, it signifies that the root contains this concept as one of its primary components."

Mk 10:9 (Lindsey:) את אשׁר זוג האלהים לא יפריד אדם

We note that in this, the fundamental text on separation, פרד does indeed have an "r," as do its Greek (χωριζέτω) and English ("separate"," rend asunder," tear apart," "divorce") counterparts.

Isaac Fried, the Analytic and Synthetic Etymology of the Hebrew Language, p. 3: "The fundamental concept ער -רע of aggregation and separation, plurality and variability, is represented by the Hebrew letter ר, corresponding to the English letter r. Whenever this consonant is written or sounded in the lingual root, it signifies that the root contains this concept as one of its primary components."

It doesn’t work in English. Doesn’t work in Hebrew either.

Just open up a thesaurus, and it disproves this theory. Take for example, “separate”, the thesaurus …

“R” is one of the more used letters in the English language, yet notice the number of synonyms that don’t have an “r”.

Open a dictionary, how many words have an “r” that have nothing to do with separation?

Two fascinating examples to the revealing effect of the uniliteral root R in the Hebrew root are:

ראה RAH, 'see, discern, perceive, recognize', namely, differentiate and detail the various distinguishing features within the field of view. The variant רעה, 'herd', refers to cattle or sheep moving freely to graze in a pasture. רֵעַ REA is 'friend', namely, an independent person, and so is רעיה